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Chicago examiner wednesday Chicago march 6 1912 16 pages roosevelt and challenges tuft men to primary test senator dixon offers nation wide preferential vote to decide between candidates will support the winner letter to mckinley president's manager follows all day battle of statements re jection of plan is expected reply asks challengers au thority questions objects of colonel's committee anp mention third term bogy by james j montague ishingtox march s senator dix oss of the roosevelt candidacy to told representative mekiuley boss e tuft candioacy that if he would ( he steam roller into the barn and | to the republican voters the choice en Taft and roosevelt that the velt people would abide by the re md support the winner whoever he eply mckinley said that before mafc direct answer he wanted to know what dixon's official position was whether he really represented the volt candidacy it is not believed mckinley or any of the Taft people want to adopt dixon's suggestion the fight be settled at a nation-wide ry in fact the Taft crowd inti p that the dixou challengers were â– well assured of an unfavorable re â– bfore they issued their defiance id abide by decision itor dixon however insists that he irely ingenuous and that every man f the roosevelt followers will sup raft if the people express a prefer for Taft it may be stated at the time that mr dixon is fully con 1 that if the matter ever does go e polls the Taft candidacy will be briefly and very effectively dis challenge was the biggest gun of tie of statements that roared through ity all day long senator dixon read early in the day the mckinley state that the harvester trust was bringing e sheaves for the roosevelt boom ay of answer he announced that the boom wa6 harbored in the harvester trust building in 1908 and that nobody twer paid any rent for the quarters there in the afternoon after consulting with senator bristow and some of the othor roosevelt boosters senator dixon went into executive session and prepared the challenge it was promptly dispatched to the mckinley headquarters it arrived there at 4:30 alt 8:30 the reply was formu lated and sent broadcast to the press associations to determine voters desires the dixon letter is in part as follows for the purpose of determining definite ly whether the republican voters of the country desire colonel roosevelt or pres ident Taft as their candidate in the ap proaching presidential campaign i here by challenge you to a test by mean's of primaries in every state in the onion 1 am of course aware of the action of the republican national committee on the primary question at its meeting in this city last december nnd i know the argu ment on which it was based in my opinion no argument can justify tbat ac tion in every state in the union propor arrangements can be made and effectively carried out securing a free and voluntary expression of the will of the republican voters it it cannot be done under a state wide primary which would be preferable it can be arranged for by district under ihe supervision of the proper committees with your co-operation similar arrange ments could undoubtedly be made in otber states where legislatures are now considering the enactment of presidential preference primary laws not an active candidate i am informed that in several stares where the preference primary question la awaiting legislative action the influence of men who are working with you is cast determinedly in opposition your co operation with me in auch states no doubt would result in Â§ the enactment of these laws and a considerable spread thereby of the presidential preference primury un der the direct legal sanction by the state let me call your attention ag.iin n the fact that colonel roosevelt has declared â– repeatedly that he is not an active can i imjate for the nomination but will accept | it tf ft comes to him as the demani of i the toters of the party the voters of this country have an rn mrs anthony tells how she spends 49,930 a year for her clothes yt ashingtox march 5 â€” in a discussion on how much a well \ a j dressed american woman is ob'igeu to spend for clothes y v mrs c h anthony of muncie ind who recently startled washington society by wearing diamonds in the heels of her slippers to-day gave the following list of her purchases made within a year * 1200 pairs of silk stook ings at 2 $ 400 50 pairs of gloves at 3.50 175 50 pairs shoes at 15 750 6 pairs diamond shoes 7,200 1 pair ruby shoes .... 400 3 pairs rhinestone heeled shoes 450 24 silk petticoats at 10 240 75 lace petticoats .... 1.875 15 fans at 15 225 30 afternoon gowns at 240 7,200 1 black velvet gown one yard and a half around 240 2.000 yards ribbons av erage price 50c 1.000 25 evening gowns at 400 10,000 6 beaded bags at 50 300 15 negligees and ki monos 975 4 permanent sets of furs 7,000 20 tailored gowns at 125 2,500 40 hats at 125 av erage 5,000 lingerie 2,000 other lingerie not tab ulated 2,000 mrs c h anthony total 49,930 mrs anthony is the wife of a wealthy muncie ind business man and is rich in her own name she is well known socially in indianapolis and other indiana cities but spends most of each year at palm beach newport and other watering places she is a statu esque blonde in addition to her six pairs of diamond-studded shoes she has bronze shoel covered with beads of solid gold massive golden anklets scintillating with gems and other unique-jewelry wa man sentenced to electric chair man accomplice in slaying of husband to be executed with her plymouth mass march b.â€”while de claring her innocence and asking that her life be spared for the sake of her three little children mrs lena cusumano of hull was to-day sentenced by judge jo seph f quinn to die in the electric chair during the week beginning june 2 for the murder of her husband frank september 18 1910 at the same time enrico mascioll alias harry marshall was sentenced to die dur ing the same week for participation in the same crime he also declared he was innocent the largest crowd in the history of the county flocked to the courthouse to hear the sentence and to see the prisoners fully 2,000 people were in the building or outside judge qnlnn entered the courtroom at 10:40 after which deputy sheriff wheeler read the proclamation district attorney albert f barker immediately called for sentence and attorney rady counsel tor mascioll asked the court if his client might speak judge quinn said that he might do so mascioll arose in the cage and with blood surging to his face said all i want to say is i am innocent judge quinn then said let him listen to the sentence reading from notes he sentenced mas cioll to die in the electric chair during the week beginning june z 1912 it was the first time that judge qnlnn had ever sentenced a person to death the same procedure was followed in re gards to mrs cnsumano she was anxious to speak and when given the opportunity said i don't want to be sentenced so hard as i have done nothing judge quinn then sentenced her to die in the electric chair during the week be ginning june 2 1912 it is expected that a petition for the commutation of the death sentence for mrs cusumano will be filed with the ex ecutive council shortly recalled mayor beaten seattle wash march s.â€”lndications at this hour 10 p m are that cj-fcr hlll has defeated mayor gill who was re called in to-day's mayoralty election gill is loading by several hundred in the dowu jtown precincts but it is believed the out lying residential districts will wipe out his lead about one-fourth of the v^te is counted cotterblll is for a dosed town and gill is the open town randljata kidnapeo boy says he is harry pratto man who leaves child in moscow,~.n y disappears police seeking him the identity of the three-year-old boy whose supposed kidnaping led to the de tention in mount morris n y of leroy robinson was learned yesterday from the boy himself according to despatches from moscow n y where robinson took the ooy to the home of his brother the lad said his name was harry pratto and that he has a father and mother and two brothers and one sister the little fellow who rande the journey from chi cago to mount morris with robinson conld not however give any idea of where his home is the boy gives every appearance of being the son of wealthy parents and ho does not in the least look like an italian de spite his name that he does not belong in Chicago captain halpin of the detec tive bureau yesterday said he was sure the captain said he had searched the records for lost children and could find none that correspond with the description of the little fellow the captain said he believed the i>oy probably was kidnaped in new york and brought west he sent that theory to the new york police yesterday george swanson an assistant specinl agent ef the illinola central railroad told the police yesterday that he met robinson and the boy in the Illinois cen tral station on january 14 last he said robinson told him he had been working in the machine shops in mounds 111 and that he was en his way to his home in eagle n y swanson said robinson told him he met an italian with the boy and that the italian said he was taking the lad to a place in evanston robinson said he induced the italian to turn over the boy to him and that he took the little fellow home with him robinson was not arrested and yester day after leaving the boy at his brother's home started to retnra to Illinois de scriptions of him have been sent west and search is being made for him aida in pyramid's shade special cable to tli examiner cairo march s.â€”verdi's opera alda was performed in a beautiful moonlight at the foot of the great pyramid by an ital ian company last night the triumphant pageant nf the finale with its thousand persons horses and camels all in antique equipment was a most impressive specta cle thp orchestra and vocalists rendered splendid trnnsic the audience numbered t least ow underwood plans a wool tax for poor will provide five cents a pound or duty free if in come bill passes aim is for revenue only proposed rate would yield 30,000,000 a year to the government washington d c march s ln keeping with democratic sympathy for the poor man's pocketbook a bill providing for a tariff on wool of not more than 5 cents per pound vill be presented to con gress within the next thirty days it will be drawn by oscar w underwood | chairman of the house committee on ways | and means if the democratic members of the house are convinced that the income tax bill re cently agreed upon by the democratic caucuses will pass in the senate the pro posed new bill will provide for free wool a careful analysis ot the wool report made by president taft'k tariff commis sion is now complete and in the bands of the committee from an authoritative source it is learned that the analysis shows a dtity of 914 cento per pound affords a complete and effective tariff wall around the wool industry shows necessary tax the pa'yne-aldrich tariff law carries a duty of 11 cents per pound or iv4 cents per pound greater than even the presi dent's own republican tariff board will admit to be justified under existing cost of production it is the purpose of mr underwood and his committee to create a tariff for rev enue only on wool a rate of five cents per pound will pour 30,000,000 a year into the national treasury a more carefnl study of the proposed income tax law reveals the fact that it will produce 100,000,000 a year insted of the 60,000,000 at first estimated if this dill is permitted to pass by the republi can senate a tariff on wool even for revenue will not be required by the de mands of the treasury the tjnderwood-lafohette compromise bill passed at the special session last year and vetoed by the president car ried a duty of 29 per cent ad valorem or about 7 cents per pound which was 2 cents less per pound than the tariff board reports will give full protection to american wool growers president Taft vetoed this bill on the ground that it was ill considered inde fensible and destructive to the wool in dustry of the country responsibility for the schedule has been pnt up to mr underwood personally by the ways and means committee his decision la to tie final as a basis for the new bill mr underwood will use the bill reported by himself last june it carried a duty of 20 per cent ad valorem or about 5 centa per pound on the wool of sheep hair of camel goati alpaca and other like animals and on all wools and hairs on the akin of such animals other duties fixed other duties fixed in this bill which will be slightly reduced with free raw wool were holls topwaste wool rags combed wools yarns made wholly or in part of wool wool cloths knit fabrics felts not woven blankets and flu uncle composed wholly on in part of wool women's and children's dress goods and coat linings ready-made clothing and shawls axmin ster moquette chenille and aubushon carpets saxony wilton and townay vel vet carpets brussells carpets wool dutch and two-ply ingrain carpets civil war hero is dead tostimc 111 march s captain jesse mcneil who won national distinction while captain of a confederate cavalry company when with sixty-five men he rode twenty six miles within the federal lines at cum berland va capturing glanerals cook and kelly during the civil war is dead at lis home at mahomet he had resided in Illinois since the close of the war roosevelt is indorsed by state committee of texas Taft assailed ex-president gets vote of 27 to 1 on resolutions urging his nomination fort worth tex march 5 - the Taft forces wont down in defeat here to day before the roosevelt adherents at a meeting of the texas republican execu tive committee marked by heated nrgu meut the result even surprised the t.v'lo-1 uel s adherents by a vote of 27 to 1 the committee aaopt-1 ed a ringing resolution indorsing roosevelt tor the presidential nomination the reso lution was framed by cecil lyon texas national committeeman whom Taft ought to oust and who tried to get hooÂ«Â»velt nominated at the last national convention over Taft on the ground to-dny timing tor the t president were joseph b ke:i!ing of in dianapolis and h f mcgregor of hous ton kealing was formewy federal iis trict attorney ar indianapolis and mcgreg or was selected by Taft t succeed lyon as leader of the party in this state keat ing resigned his federal office when koose i velt wanted him to prosecute the aulian-i apolis news for alleged libel kenllng this afternoon refused to admit final defeat and declared he and other Taft workers will lay plans to cnpl ure precinct and county delegates to the state convention and thus carry the state and its eighteen delegates he intimated that william mckinley chief manager for Taft might come to texas himself the resolutions adopted by the commit-1 tee this afternoon frankly denounce pres ident Taft his campaign managers and mcgregor for alleged bulldozing andl coercion of federal office holders in this state the ultimatum carried in the reso lution directed to tnft is hands off fort worth was selected for the stale convention early in may at the meeting this afternoon kealing in a speech tried to stampede the com mitteemen for Taft and fbr this was scored by lyon who spoke afterward chokes coughs up pearl cincinnati girl then gets four more out of oyster shell new york march s.â€”mlbs bessie swift of cincinnati artist musician and tourist to bermmta was at dinner monday night when ahe was suddenly seized with a violent fit of coughing dr rosenborg ship's doctor of the steamship oceana which was bringing miss swift and her parents from bermuda began slapping her on the back thus aided the young woman coughed np an oyster which had lodged in her throat then it was found that the oyster contained a large pearl an examination of the shell disclosed three others almost as large miss swift pre sented dr roaenburg with the one ahe had coughed up and she intends to have the others set in a pendant trial separation fails wife asks divorce after couple live apart eighteen months elgin 111 march 6.â€”trial separation of eighteen months resulted to-day in suit for divorce filed at geneva by mrs ida a grossman against henry g grossman a job maÃŸter in the klgin national watch factory according to the declaration they separated by mutual agreement dividing their property equally friends aay they agreed to live aloife until snre whether or not they wanted a divorce she asserts in her bill that prior to aeparation by mu tual agreement her husband became mo rose and discontented 2,500,000 in Chicago census bulletin shows large growth in metropolitan district washington d c march 6.â€”the population of Chicago and its environs which practically are a part of the city is nearly 2,500,000 according to a bulletin issued by the census bureau to-day on the metropolitan districts of large american cities while the population of Chicago proper in 1910 was 2,185,283 the inhabi tants of its metropolitan district number 2,448,92l the increase of population since 1900 was 28.7 for the city and 33.1 for the metropolitan district â€¢ clerk heir to 1,000,000 resigns grasps hat and leaves of fice in ten minutes omaha ncb march 6.â€”bdwanl mather a clerk in the local office of the rock island railroad received a court certificate to-day showing he is heir â– to 1,000,000 from the estate of the late robert mather his brother head of the westinghod'se company within ten min utes of the receipt of the certificate the omaha man had resigned taken his hat and left the rock island offices waldorf astors have son mother and heir to millions doing well in london special cab ts thi examiner london march 5.â€”a son was horn to mr and mrs waldorf astor to-day moth er and heir are doing well captain spender clay m p who married miss pauline astor and who has been danger ously 111 in india received the news to day on his arrival at aden of the death of hi infant boo in london of pucuuiouia mexico massacre of americans feared by secretary stimson president francesco madero mexico's chief executive whose latest act is to insult american deelegation asking for protec tion first move of yankee troops to cross border will be sig nal for massacre of for eigners declares calerai madero laughs in face of american delegates president refuses to listen to demand that his coun try be held responsible for slain u s citizens ranchmen send their men out of war zone when mexicans think we are after land instead of protection for our citizens trouble will come ? " france to send warship to save its interests ry ' slaughter of americans in f mexico if mexicans get the [ j idea that the united states 1 , has designs on mexico was predicted in Chicago to-day by sec retary of war symson the pame ; prediction applied to china he said we are watching the situation closely and the armies in both eoun tries are keeping away from foreign residents because the first man who utters a jingo cry will be responsible for the slaughter of an untold mim j ber of foreigners in those countries when they come to believe that ousv armies object is to acquire land in*j stead of protecting our countrymeniq they will wreak their vengeance ov foreigners mexico city march s.â€”presi dent madero has issued open defiancÂ»,s to americans their interests and their government to-day he insulted ! a delegation of americans who cauest ] upon him to inform him that the mex*j ican government would be held raw sponsible for any americans killed bjf4 either the rebel or federnl troops afcj their protest he laughed and wavedjw them away refusing to hear more mexico is now preparing to holds3 americans and all other foreigners ash hostages in the event of foreign troops being landed on mexican soil thi statement was made to-day by manuclf calero minister of foreign affairs ; in conjunction with senor ancona madero's private secretary he de clared that he believed and feared that the first attempt of american sol diers to cross the mexican bordeijj wou'.d be the signal for the massacr^l of americans in mexico american intervention the topic the government will not grant rs quests from foreigners for arms h said because we do not propose to have these foreigners kill our people there is no necessity of discussing the responsibility for the death of any americans they and all their inter ests will be held as hostages to insure this country from invasion by foreign troops the situation is growing worsa hourly american intervention 13 the topic everywhere many americans are leaving and many are furnishing transportation to their em yea no wish to leave the city the entire country is in a of anarchy the states of i*a cat seas sonora tabasco chiapas and axaca refuse to obey the federal go mment and it is reported tha the lebe are about to take guadalajara next mexico city in size it is reported that consul general arnold shanklln will leave f o â– wash ington to-morrow to impress upou the ! state department th gravitj o situation uu litc peril a^k fifty ej|Â§iÂ§Â§Â£i m lpc yÂ»||tf icugene 4 Â« owner i v*m ultimatum issued by madero's minister ? t he government will not t * grant any requests from !< foreigners for arms be ? cause we do not propose to i have these foreigners kill \ our people there is no ne ( cessity of discussing the re | sponsibility for the death ) of any americans they j and all their interests will i be held as hostages to in { sure this country from in 1 s vasion by foreign troops â€” i manuel calero mexican minister i \ of foreign affairs child saves life of thieves aged victim little girl brings police and pistol battle behind hay bales follows the timely warning of a little kltl whose identity is not known to turea e teotlves last night enabled them to nave s h jnrzembski a nsged man from being beaten to death by two robbers in the rear of bis flour and feed store at 1018 milwaukee avenue the detectives hanson tuoby and swan son of the Chicago avenue station rap tured the two bandits after a pistol rot tie followed by a flst flgbt the attack on tnnembskl was at 8:30 p m when thousands were discussing the sentence of the kaufman slayers as if to accentuate trie belief expressed by many that the sentences would do little te halt orinie one of the bandits captured in the jarzembskl store who said with a sneer that his name was john smith cooly told the desk sergeant thot a meeting of fourteen men was neld in bis room in the afternoon and it was arranged that they should go out in pairs and hold up and rob persons la all parts of the cltv smith admitted that when the plams of the fourteen were being made at this bandit convention ' they had just finished reading of the kanfman verdict the three detectives were walking in milwaukee avenue when a small girl ran up to them hurry oh hurry she cried they are killing that eld man in the feed store hnrry up or he will he dead the detectives ran te the store guided by the sounds ef a scuffle and balf i choked pleas for mercy they found jar zembskl on the floor and the two thugs raining blows upon him dropping their victim the men ran behind some bales of hay and opened flro the detectives replied from behind another im provised fort no one was hit bur the detectives had automatic revolve and the thieves finally surrendered t jarzembskl the ww aa bruised fron head to foot thi_.i s l ot fatally hurt wae trying i e â€¢Â« â€¢* bis store en his liajies and aneaap vol x no 65 a m continued on 4th page 2nd column registered in pripf onf cfnt delivered by csrrltr u s pÂ»tent office rlm wiic v^cn 1 30 cent , per month wednesday sbsasl i jg'ffi slowly rising temperature moderate ijy jt range of temperatures thelittlegiant this want ad appeared in sunday's examiner want ad section sewers â€” wanted on waists to work home no experience necessary address bz so examiner it went all over Chicago and found 17 people who wanted this work examiner want ads reach more readers than any other paper want ad offices 9 west madison street ke l re ; t t bte 326 west madison street ground floor hearst building phones main 5000 automatic 44344 jfw the aaaoclation of american â€¢ advar j id/ayuu ti,er * has examined and certified to \ tjyyp the circulation of thia publication the figures of circulation contained in the asaociation'a report only are guaranteed astociation of american adverttmen no 2300 whitehall bids n y city

Chicago examiner wednesday Chicago march 6 1912 16 pages roosevelt and challenges tuft men to primary test senator dixon offers nation wide preferential vote to decide between candidates will support the winner letter to mckinley president's manager follows all day battle of statements re jection of plan is expected reply asks challengers au thority questions objects of colonel's committee anp mention third term bogy by james j montague ishingtox march s senator dix oss of the roosevelt candidacy to told representative mekiuley boss e tuft candioacy that if he would ( he steam roller into the barn and | to the republican voters the choice en Taft and roosevelt that the velt people would abide by the re md support the winner whoever he eply mckinley said that before mafc direct answer he wanted to know what dixon's official position was whether he really represented the volt candidacy it is not believed mckinley or any of the Taft people want to adopt dixon's suggestion the fight be settled at a nation-wide ry in fact the Taft crowd inti p that the dixou challengers were â– well assured of an unfavorable re â– bfore they issued their defiance id abide by decision itor dixon however insists that he irely ingenuous and that every man f the roosevelt followers will sup raft if the people express a prefer for Taft it may be stated at the time that mr dixon is fully con 1 that if the matter ever does go e polls the Taft candidacy will be briefly and very effectively dis challenge was the biggest gun of tie of statements that roared through ity all day long senator dixon read early in the day the mckinley state that the harvester trust was bringing e sheaves for the roosevelt boom ay of answer he announced that the boom wa6 harbored in the harvester trust building in 1908 and that nobody twer paid any rent for the quarters there in the afternoon after consulting with senator bristow and some of the othor roosevelt boosters senator dixon went into executive session and prepared the challenge it was promptly dispatched to the mckinley headquarters it arrived there at 4:30 alt 8:30 the reply was formu lated and sent broadcast to the press associations to determine voters desires the dixon letter is in part as follows for the purpose of determining definite ly whether the republican voters of the country desire colonel roosevelt or pres ident Taft as their candidate in the ap proaching presidential campaign i here by challenge you to a test by mean's of primaries in every state in the onion 1 am of course aware of the action of the republican national committee on the primary question at its meeting in this city last december nnd i know the argu ment on which it was based in my opinion no argument can justify tbat ac tion in every state in the union propor arrangements can be made and effectively carried out securing a free and voluntary expression of the will of the republican voters it it cannot be done under a state wide primary which would be preferable it can be arranged for by district under ihe supervision of the proper committees with your co-operation similar arrange ments could undoubtedly be made in otber states where legislatures are now considering the enactment of presidential preference primary laws not an active candidate i am informed that in several stares where the preference primary question la awaiting legislative action the influence of men who are working with you is cast determinedly in opposition your co operation with me in auch states no doubt would result in Â§ the enactment of these laws and a considerable spread thereby of the presidential preference primury un der the direct legal sanction by the state let me call your attention ag.iin n the fact that colonel roosevelt has declared â– repeatedly that he is not an active can i imjate for the nomination but will accept | it tf ft comes to him as the demani of i the toters of the party the voters of this country have an rn mrs anthony tells how she spends 49,930 a year for her clothes yt ashingtox march 5 â€” in a discussion on how much a well \ a j dressed american woman is ob'igeu to spend for clothes y v mrs c h anthony of muncie ind who recently startled washington society by wearing diamonds in the heels of her slippers to-day gave the following list of her purchases made within a year * 1200 pairs of silk stook ings at 2 $ 400 50 pairs of gloves at 3.50 175 50 pairs shoes at 15 750 6 pairs diamond shoes 7,200 1 pair ruby shoes .... 400 3 pairs rhinestone heeled shoes 450 24 silk petticoats at 10 240 75 lace petticoats .... 1.875 15 fans at 15 225 30 afternoon gowns at 240 7,200 1 black velvet gown one yard and a half around 240 2.000 yards ribbons av erage price 50c 1.000 25 evening gowns at 400 10,000 6 beaded bags at 50 300 15 negligees and ki monos 975 4 permanent sets of furs 7,000 20 tailored gowns at 125 2,500 40 hats at 125 av erage 5,000 lingerie 2,000 other lingerie not tab ulated 2,000 mrs c h anthony total 49,930 mrs anthony is the wife of a wealthy muncie ind business man and is rich in her own name she is well known socially in indianapolis and other indiana cities but spends most of each year at palm beach newport and other watering places she is a statu esque blonde in addition to her six pairs of diamond-studded shoes she has bronze shoel covered with beads of solid gold massive golden anklets scintillating with gems and other unique-jewelry wa man sentenced to electric chair man accomplice in slaying of husband to be executed with her plymouth mass march b.â€”while de claring her innocence and asking that her life be spared for the sake of her three little children mrs lena cusumano of hull was to-day sentenced by judge jo seph f quinn to die in the electric chair during the week beginning june 2 for the murder of her husband frank september 18 1910 at the same time enrico mascioll alias harry marshall was sentenced to die dur ing the same week for participation in the same crime he also declared he was innocent the largest crowd in the history of the county flocked to the courthouse to hear the sentence and to see the prisoners fully 2,000 people were in the building or outside judge qnlnn entered the courtroom at 10:40 after which deputy sheriff wheeler read the proclamation district attorney albert f barker immediately called for sentence and attorney rady counsel tor mascioll asked the court if his client might speak judge quinn said that he might do so mascioll arose in the cage and with blood surging to his face said all i want to say is i am innocent judge quinn then said let him listen to the sentence reading from notes he sentenced mas cioll to die in the electric chair during the week beginning june z 1912 it was the first time that judge qnlnn had ever sentenced a person to death the same procedure was followed in re gards to mrs cnsumano she was anxious to speak and when given the opportunity said i don't want to be sentenced so hard as i have done nothing judge quinn then sentenced her to die in the electric chair during the week be ginning june 2 1912 it is expected that a petition for the commutation of the death sentence for mrs cusumano will be filed with the ex ecutive council shortly recalled mayor beaten seattle wash march s.â€”lndications at this hour 10 p m are that cj-fcr hlll has defeated mayor gill who was re called in to-day's mayoralty election gill is loading by several hundred in the dowu jtown precincts but it is believed the out lying residential districts will wipe out his lead about one-fourth of the v^te is counted cotterblll is for a dosed town and gill is the open town randljata kidnapeo boy says he is harry pratto man who leaves child in moscow,~.n y disappears police seeking him the identity of the three-year-old boy whose supposed kidnaping led to the de tention in mount morris n y of leroy robinson was learned yesterday from the boy himself according to despatches from moscow n y where robinson took the ooy to the home of his brother the lad said his name was harry pratto and that he has a father and mother and two brothers and one sister the little fellow who rande the journey from chi cago to mount morris with robinson conld not however give any idea of where his home is the boy gives every appearance of being the son of wealthy parents and ho does not in the least look like an italian de spite his name that he does not belong in Chicago captain halpin of the detec tive bureau yesterday said he was sure the captain said he had searched the records for lost children and could find none that correspond with the description of the little fellow the captain said he believed the i>oy probably was kidnaped in new york and brought west he sent that theory to the new york police yesterday george swanson an assistant specinl agent ef the illinola central railroad told the police yesterday that he met robinson and the boy in the Illinois cen tral station on january 14 last he said robinson told him he had been working in the machine shops in mounds 111 and that he was en his way to his home in eagle n y swanson said robinson told him he met an italian with the boy and that the italian said he was taking the lad to a place in evanston robinson said he induced the italian to turn over the boy to him and that he took the little fellow home with him robinson was not arrested and yester day after leaving the boy at his brother's home started to retnra to Illinois de scriptions of him have been sent west and search is being made for him aida in pyramid's shade special cable to tli examiner cairo march s.â€”verdi's opera alda was performed in a beautiful moonlight at the foot of the great pyramid by an ital ian company last night the triumphant pageant nf the finale with its thousand persons horses and camels all in antique equipment was a most impressive specta cle thp orchestra and vocalists rendered splendid trnnsic the audience numbered t least ow underwood plans a wool tax for poor will provide five cents a pound or duty free if in come bill passes aim is for revenue only proposed rate would yield 30,000,000 a year to the government washington d c march s ln keeping with democratic sympathy for the poor man's pocketbook a bill providing for a tariff on wool of not more than 5 cents per pound vill be presented to con gress within the next thirty days it will be drawn by oscar w underwood | chairman of the house committee on ways | and means if the democratic members of the house are convinced that the income tax bill re cently agreed upon by the democratic caucuses will pass in the senate the pro posed new bill will provide for free wool a careful analysis ot the wool report made by president taft'k tariff commis sion is now complete and in the bands of the committee from an authoritative source it is learned that the analysis shows a dtity of 914 cento per pound affords a complete and effective tariff wall around the wool industry shows necessary tax the pa'yne-aldrich tariff law carries a duty of 11 cents per pound or iv4 cents per pound greater than even the presi dent's own republican tariff board will admit to be justified under existing cost of production it is the purpose of mr underwood and his committee to create a tariff for rev enue only on wool a rate of five cents per pound will pour 30,000,000 a year into the national treasury a more carefnl study of the proposed income tax law reveals the fact that it will produce 100,000,000 a year insted of the 60,000,000 at first estimated if this dill is permitted to pass by the republi can senate a tariff on wool even for revenue will not be required by the de mands of the treasury the tjnderwood-lafohette compromise bill passed at the special session last year and vetoed by the president car ried a duty of 29 per cent ad valorem or about 7 cents per pound which was 2 cents less per pound than the tariff board reports will give full protection to american wool growers president Taft vetoed this bill on the ground that it was ill considered inde fensible and destructive to the wool in dustry of the country responsibility for the schedule has been pnt up to mr underwood personally by the ways and means committee his decision la to tie final as a basis for the new bill mr underwood will use the bill reported by himself last june it carried a duty of 20 per cent ad valorem or about 5 centa per pound on the wool of sheep hair of camel goati alpaca and other like animals and on all wools and hairs on the akin of such animals other duties fixed other duties fixed in this bill which will be slightly reduced with free raw wool were holls topwaste wool rags combed wools yarns made wholly or in part of wool wool cloths knit fabrics felts not woven blankets and flu uncle composed wholly on in part of wool women's and children's dress goods and coat linings ready-made clothing and shawls axmin ster moquette chenille and aubushon carpets saxony wilton and townay vel vet carpets brussells carpets wool dutch and two-ply ingrain carpets civil war hero is dead tostimc 111 march s captain jesse mcneil who won national distinction while captain of a confederate cavalry company when with sixty-five men he rode twenty six miles within the federal lines at cum berland va capturing glanerals cook and kelly during the civil war is dead at lis home at mahomet he had resided in Illinois since the close of the war roosevelt is indorsed by state committee of texas Taft assailed ex-president gets vote of 27 to 1 on resolutions urging his nomination fort worth tex march 5 - the Taft forces wont down in defeat here to day before the roosevelt adherents at a meeting of the texas republican execu tive committee marked by heated nrgu meut the result even surprised the t.v'lo-1 uel s adherents by a vote of 27 to 1 the committee aaopt-1 ed a ringing resolution indorsing roosevelt tor the presidential nomination the reso lution was framed by cecil lyon texas national committeeman whom Taft ought to oust and who tried to get hooÂ«Â»velt nominated at the last national convention over Taft on the ground to-dny timing tor the t president were joseph b ke:i!ing of in dianapolis and h f mcgregor of hous ton kealing was formewy federal iis trict attorney ar indianapolis and mcgreg or was selected by Taft t succeed lyon as leader of the party in this state keat ing resigned his federal office when koose i velt wanted him to prosecute the aulian-i apolis news for alleged libel kenllng this afternoon refused to admit final defeat and declared he and other Taft workers will lay plans to cnpl ure precinct and county delegates to the state convention and thus carry the state and its eighteen delegates he intimated that william mckinley chief manager for Taft might come to texas himself the resolutions adopted by the commit-1 tee this afternoon frankly denounce pres ident Taft his campaign managers and mcgregor for alleged bulldozing andl coercion of federal office holders in this state the ultimatum carried in the reso lution directed to tnft is hands off fort worth was selected for the stale convention early in may at the meeting this afternoon kealing in a speech tried to stampede the com mitteemen for Taft and fbr this was scored by lyon who spoke afterward chokes coughs up pearl cincinnati girl then gets four more out of oyster shell new york march s.â€”mlbs bessie swift of cincinnati artist musician and tourist to bermmta was at dinner monday night when ahe was suddenly seized with a violent fit of coughing dr rosenborg ship's doctor of the steamship oceana which was bringing miss swift and her parents from bermuda began slapping her on the back thus aided the young woman coughed np an oyster which had lodged in her throat then it was found that the oyster contained a large pearl an examination of the shell disclosed three others almost as large miss swift pre sented dr roaenburg with the one ahe had coughed up and she intends to have the others set in a pendant trial separation fails wife asks divorce after couple live apart eighteen months elgin 111 march 6.â€”trial separation of eighteen months resulted to-day in suit for divorce filed at geneva by mrs ida a grossman against henry g grossman a job maÃŸter in the klgin national watch factory according to the declaration they separated by mutual agreement dividing their property equally friends aay they agreed to live aloife until snre whether or not they wanted a divorce she asserts in her bill that prior to aeparation by mu tual agreement her husband became mo rose and discontented 2,500,000 in Chicago census bulletin shows large growth in metropolitan district washington d c march 6.â€”the population of Chicago and its environs which practically are a part of the city is nearly 2,500,000 according to a bulletin issued by the census bureau to-day on the metropolitan districts of large american cities while the population of Chicago proper in 1910 was 2,185,283 the inhabi tants of its metropolitan district number 2,448,92l the increase of population since 1900 was 28.7 for the city and 33.1 for the metropolitan district â€¢ clerk heir to 1,000,000 resigns grasps hat and leaves of fice in ten minutes omaha ncb march 6.â€”bdwanl mather a clerk in the local office of the rock island railroad received a court certificate to-day showing he is heir â– to 1,000,000 from the estate of the late robert mather his brother head of the westinghod'se company within ten min utes of the receipt of the certificate the omaha man had resigned taken his hat and left the rock island offices waldorf astors have son mother and heir to millions doing well in london special cab ts thi examiner london march 5.â€”a son was horn to mr and mrs waldorf astor to-day moth er and heir are doing well captain spender clay m p who married miss pauline astor and who has been danger ously 111 in india received the news to day on his arrival at aden of the death of hi infant boo in london of pucuuiouia mexico massacre of americans feared by secretary stimson president francesco madero mexico's chief executive whose latest act is to insult american deelegation asking for protec tion first move of yankee troops to cross border will be sig nal for massacre of for eigners declares calerai madero laughs in face of american delegates president refuses to listen to demand that his coun try be held responsible for slain u s citizens ranchmen send their men out of war zone when mexicans think we are after land instead of protection for our citizens trouble will come ? " france to send warship to save its interests ry ' slaughter of americans in f mexico if mexicans get the [ j idea that the united states 1 , has designs on mexico was predicted in Chicago to-day by sec retary of war symson the pame ; prediction applied to china he said we are watching the situation closely and the armies in both eoun tries are keeping away from foreign residents because the first man who utters a jingo cry will be responsible for the slaughter of an untold mim j ber of foreigners in those countries when they come to believe that ousv armies object is to acquire land in*j stead of protecting our countrymeniq they will wreak their vengeance ov foreigners mexico city march s.â€”presi dent madero has issued open defiancÂ»,s to americans their interests and their government to-day he insulted ! a delegation of americans who cauest ] upon him to inform him that the mex*j ican government would be held raw sponsible for any americans killed bjf4 either the rebel or federnl troops afcj their protest he laughed and wavedjw them away refusing to hear more mexico is now preparing to holds3 americans and all other foreigners ash hostages in the event of foreign troops being landed on mexican soil thi statement was made to-day by manuclf calero minister of foreign affairs ; in conjunction with senor ancona madero's private secretary he de clared that he believed and feared that the first attempt of american sol diers to cross the mexican bordeijj wou'.d be the signal for the massacr^l of americans in mexico american intervention the topic the government will not grant rs quests from foreigners for arms h said because we do not propose to have these foreigners kill our people there is no necessity of discussing the responsibility for the death of any americans they and all their inter ests will be held as hostages to insure this country from invasion by foreign troops the situation is growing worsa hourly american intervention 13 the topic everywhere many americans are leaving and many are furnishing transportation to their em yea no wish to leave the city the entire country is in a of anarchy the states of i*a cat seas sonora tabasco chiapas and axaca refuse to obey the federal go mment and it is reported tha the lebe are about to take guadalajara next mexico city in size it is reported that consul general arnold shanklln will leave f o â– wash ington to-morrow to impress upou the ! state department th gravitj o situation uu litc peril a^k fifty ej|Â§iÂ§Â§Â£i m lpc yÂ»||tf icugene 4 Â« owner i v*m ultimatum issued by madero's minister ? t he government will not t * grant any requests from !< foreigners for arms be ? cause we do not propose to i have these foreigners kill \ our people there is no ne ( cessity of discussing the re | sponsibility for the death ) of any americans they j and all their interests will i be held as hostages to in { sure this country from in 1 s vasion by foreign troops â€” i manuel calero mexican minister i \ of foreign affairs child saves life of thieves aged victim little girl brings police and pistol battle behind hay bales follows the timely warning of a little kltl whose identity is not known to turea e teotlves last night enabled them to nave s h jnrzembski a nsged man from being beaten to death by two robbers in the rear of bis flour and feed store at 1018 milwaukee avenue the detectives hanson tuoby and swan son of the Chicago avenue station rap tured the two bandits after a pistol rot tie followed by a flst flgbt the attack on tnnembskl was at 8:30 p m when thousands were discussing the sentence of the kaufman slayers as if to accentuate trie belief expressed by many that the sentences would do little te halt orinie one of the bandits captured in the jarzembskl store who said with a sneer that his name was john smith cooly told the desk sergeant thot a meeting of fourteen men was neld in bis room in the afternoon and it was arranged that they should go out in pairs and hold up and rob persons la all parts of the cltv smith admitted that when the plams of the fourteen were being made at this bandit convention ' they had just finished reading of the kanfman verdict the three detectives were walking in milwaukee avenue when a small girl ran up to them hurry oh hurry she cried they are killing that eld man in the feed store hnrry up or he will he dead the detectives ran te the store guided by the sounds ef a scuffle and balf i choked pleas for mercy they found jar zembskl on the floor and the two thugs raining blows upon him dropping their victim the men ran behind some bales of hay and opened flro the detectives replied from behind another im provised fort no one was hit bur the detectives had automatic revolve and the thieves finally surrendered t jarzembskl the ww aa bruised fron head to foot thi_.i s l ot fatally hurt wae trying i e â€¢Â« â€¢* bis store en his liajies and aneaap vol x no 65 a m continued on 4th page 2nd column registered in pripf onf cfnt delivered by csrrltr u s pÂ»tent office rlm wiic v^cn 1 30 cent , per month wednesday sbsasl i jg'ffi slowly rising temperature moderate ijy jt range of temperatures thelittlegiant this want ad appeared in sunday's examiner want ad section sewers â€” wanted on waists to work home no experience necessary address bz so examiner it went all over Chicago and found 17 people who wanted this work examiner want ads reach more readers than any other paper want ad offices 9 west madison street ke l re ; t t bte 326 west madison street ground floor hearst building phones main 5000 automatic 44344 jfw the aaaoclation of american â€¢ advar j id/ayuu ti,er * has examined and certified to \ tjyyp the circulation of thia publication the figures of circulation contained in the asaociation'a report only are guaranteed astociation of american adverttmen no 2300 whitehall bids n y city